WHENEVER I go to Rwanda, I visit the Kigali Genocide Memorial. A monument to the bestial level, human beings can descend, and a reminder that we must do everything possible to ensure that the massacre of over 850,000 people in 1994 in a hate rage, is never repeated.

MATHIEU Kerekou, a Major in the Benin Army on October 26, 1972, marched on the Presidency to seize power and save the country from anarchism and becoming a failed state. He then proceeded to clear the mines of ethnicity and political instability, mainly planted by France, the departed colonial master.

ALHAJI Lai Mohammed, the Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is ordinarily, a quiet, shy-looking man. That is how those of us who have known him over the decades see him. But as spokesperson of the opposition, he became so fiery and effective that under the Obasanjo administration, some feared for his safety. So I wrote a piece “Watching over Lai Mohammed”

I JUST spent about two weeks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) my longest in that country. Each time, I learn new things. One of them is a joke that brilliantly summarises the situation in the country.

THE President, Muhammadu Buhari is a victim of the high targets and expectations he and his lieutenants are setting. They do not appear to have learnt lessons from the Road Map and manifesto they made which are littered with promises, very difficult to fulfill.